单词 | recidivate |
释义 | recidivatev. intransitive. To fall back, relapse; to backslide. Now: spec. to relapse into crime, to reoffend.Apparently rare between the mid 17th and early 20th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > relapse > [verb (intransitive)] recidivate1528 recoil1542 retrograde1613 recide1628 retrogress1812 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise starta1450 fang1522 recidivate1528 to draw back1572 flinch1578 to shrink collar1579 retract1616 to shrink out of the collar1636 renege1651 to fly off1667 to slip (the) collarc1677 to declare off1749 to cry off1775 to back out1807 to fight off1833 crawfish1848 welsh1871 to pull out1884 1528 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 59 Ye..Mayor..being residivate into the saide interdiction. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Recidiver, to recidiuate, relapse, fall backe, or againe. a1626 L. Andrewes Opuscula (1629) 79 Thus then to recidivate, and to goe against her owne act and promise [etc.]. a1650 S. D'Ewes Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) (modernized text) I. 176 Within a few years after she recidivated back again to Romish idolatry. 1733 Pract. Husbandman I. 436 The Sap is made to recidivate,..and the Tree itself to take the stronger Root. 1932 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 23 70 Of the poor workers 68% recidivated during the post-parole period. 1960 P. W. Tappan Crime, Justice & Correction I. ii. 61 These factors may be more important than the nature of the correctional experience, itself, in determining which offenders will recidivate. 1989 Statist. Sci. 4 276/2 An education program that causes some participants to abstain from high-risk behavior..only to recidivate to the same level of risky behavior. 2005 M. A. Cohen Cost Crime & Justice i. 13 The risk that the prison experience will increase the propensity of the offender to recidivate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1528 |
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